Irishrover
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The price of a litre of normal unleaded over here is on average €1.50 (£1.31). How does that compare with the price in the UK at the moment ??
Coming over next week so, do I fill up over here or across the water ??
Coming over next week so, do I fill up over here or across the water ??
Depends where you get it i paid £135.9 at Sainsburys for doozel the other day. Petrol a little cheaper, never notice price to be honest but about £128.00 ish i think. By the time you get here it will be £127.00 bet you are doing cartwheels.
Datatek
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Blimey, nearly £136 quid a litre!
Irishrover
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I would think that's for filling up to the brim (100 lts.) !!
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Bollocks Keith, you spotted the unforced error. Should of course have been 135.9 pence and 128 pence. Anyway i am still over the moon with the cut in duty. If i fill the car up to the brim from empty i will save a whopping 90 pence. How good is that? And this prick thinks he has done us a favour, bloody idiot.
Had to laff out loud earlier; "usual" budget announces raise from 18.00hrs, and as usual on budget day there were massive rush-hour queues at Morrisons/Tesco/BP local to here......bet they all felt pig-sick when they finally heard it went down today, specially havin put the next week or two's fuel in
p38 prius lol
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this is the range rover forum don't you mean the next day or two's fuel in lolHad to laff out loud earlier; "usual" budget announces raise from 18.00hrs, and as usual on budget day there were massive rush-hour queues at Morrisons/Tesco/BP local to here......bet they all felt pig-sick when they finally heard it went down today, specially havin put the next week or two's fuel in
Had to laff out loud earlier; "usual" budget announces raise from 18.00hrs, and as usual on budget day there were massive rush-hour queues at Morrisons/Tesco/BP local to here......bet they all felt pig-sick when they finally heard it went down today, specially havin put the next week or two's fuel in
Of course technically fuel duty on any fuel in the garage tanks has already been paid. It is paid before it leaves the refinery. Just as when all the rip off bastards put it up at 18.00 when it goes up. That is only for future deliveries any fuel in their tanks is duty paid and should only go up after next delivery. One garage owner i knew always topped his tanks a couple of days before the budget and closed to forecourt until the day after it.
As i said before the fuel in their tanks is duty paid, it is only fuel they have delivered AFTER the budget that has the increased tax on it. Any garage that puts it up at 18.00 on the night is profiteering and cheating the public.
There was a price drop once. In my previous post i mentioned the guy who used to top his tanks then close the forecourt til after budget day. Well a long time ago petrol was increased by 20 pence a gallon in the budget. He made a bloody fortune out of that rise. But the proposal was voted out in parliament so the price had to be reduced. Don't think he gave anybody their money back though.
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MikeV8SE
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What I have never understood (morally, rather than technically), and I used to work in the tax department as a tax advisor, was how they could tax us twice - i.e. fuel duty and then VAT? As there's double tax treaties in place with many other countries, yet they feel it just to tax us twice within the UK! Arseholes!
Yes i agree it does not seem right that tax is charged on tax. If they applied vat to the value of the fuel say 50p a litre vat would be 10p. If you take 20% vat from say 140p per litre the fuel and fuel tax is around 116.67 per litre, vat makes it up to 140 a litre. So the vat charged on fuel and tax makes it more than twice as much. But if we did not pay this how could we afford to send Pakistan £450,000,000.00 in aid every year?
fortgrange
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Around here its been going up by about a penny a litre every other day. So by Monday it'll be dearer than before the penny was taken off anyway!!
